AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven Linux operating system that fills the gap left by the discontinuation of the CentOS Linux stable release. AlmaLinux OS is an Enterprise Linux distro, binary compatible with RHEL, and guided and built by the community.
Features
Security
AlmaLinux OS provides a set of security features: Errata, GPG keys, Mailing Lists, OpenSCAP, OVAL, SBOM, and Secure Boot.
Errata
AlmaLinux OS Foundation publishes Errata to help users to determine what updates such as security issues and fixed bugs are available and their importance based on analysis.
OpenSCAP and OVAL
AlmaLinux OS provides SCAP and SCAP Workbench packages to audit your AlmaLinux system for security compliance alongside OVAL streams.
Software Bill of Materials
AlmaLinux OS has implemented SBOM into AlmaLinux Build System to make the build process more secure and possible to trace.
Production-ready
AlmaLinux OS is an enterprise-grade server OS and a stable Linux distribution with regular releases that come with a long support windows. You can rely on AlmaLinux OS to run any and every critical workloads.
Fully supported, always free
AlmaLinux OS Foundation members, sponsors and partners back the AlmaLinux OS with investments and long support commitments to ensure the distribution is free of limitations, fees and charges.
Effortless to switch to
Switching distributions is usually costly and time-consuming, but that's not the case when switching from CentOS and other RHEL derivatives to AlmaLinux OS. Switching is easy.
Installation
Each supported architecture has various installation images available:
- DVD - effortless installation with all packages included, no additional repositories required.
- Boot - a single network installation CD image that downloads packages over the Internet.
- Minimal - a minimal self-containing DVD image that makes possible offline installation.